Consultant Geriatrician

The Department of Healthcare for Older People provides a comprehensive service for older patients both in hospital and in community settings and leads on the care of older people at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital. We are committed and passionate about older patients living with frailty. Here at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital our specialty has grown substantially in recent years due to the development of one of the largest fractured neck of femur service in Europe, a comprehensive Older Person Assessment and Liaison (OPAL) service providing vital front door care and a Frailty Same Day Emergency Care (FSDEC) service. The specialty wishes to recruit additional and dynamic Consultant Geriatricians at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital to support our exciting and forward-thinking team. We welcome and can accommodate any subspecialty interest, though we particularly wish to recruit consultants with an interest in front door geriatrics, peri-operative geriatrics (Orthogeriatric and surgical liaison), and Falls. Further description of the specific services and areas for development are detailed below. Heartlands Hospital are committed to supporting staff wellbeing, so although the posts are 10 programmed activities, working less than full time can be accommodated.

BHH Services The opportunity to join a well-established team of front door/interface geriatricians to improve the early identification and comprehensive geriatric assessment of frail older adults arriving at the hospital front door. The post holder will have a chance to take part in service development to develop the acute frailty pathway at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, as well as exciting opportunities to be involved in collaborating with the wider BSOL integrated system to explore alternatives to acute hospital attendance for older adults living with frailty. The opportunity to develop a community service with In-Reach to Intermediate Care centres anddeveloping a rapid access GP clinic to provide early review of community-based patients and avoid hospital admissions where possible. Provision of a liaison Orthogeriatric service -- there is a centralised fractured neck of femur service, which is one of the largest in Europe for all patients across the trust based at the BHH site, giving an excellent opportunity to develop orthogeriatric services at the site. MDT Falls clinics and osteoporosis clinics also form part of orthogeriatric services and there is opportunity to develop tilt table testing and syncope clinics if the candidate has the expertise. Frailty SDEC provides same day emergency care service for frail older adults, delivering specialist input and facilitating early discharge. We have consultant led MDT Falls, MDT Parkinsons, Osteoporosis and General Geriatrics clinics.